{"id":27914,"date":"2012-03-13T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T15:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27914"},"modified":"2012-03-13T11:12:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T15:12:51","slug":"citigroup-ex-manager-islam-has-no-regrets-from-hedge-fund-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2012\/citigroup-ex-manager-islam-has-no-regrets-from-hedge-fund-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup Ex-Manager Islam Has No Regrets From Hedge-Fund Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Reaz Islam, who ran Citigroup Inc. hedge funds that lost most of their value in 2008, has &#8220;no regrets&#8221; about his performance and said &#8220;ambulance-chasing&#8221; lawyers are behind claims that he and the bank misled clients.<\/p>\n<p>Investors in the ASTA\/MAT municipal bond funds knew how volatile they were, Islam said in interviews and e-mails that broke his four-year silence on the matter. Those claiming otherwise are either &#8220;engaged in fraud or highly irresponsible,&#8221; said Islam, who left New York-based Citigroup in 2008 and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2012\/03\/12\/bloomberg_articlesM0JG5E1A1I4G01-M0SRX.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Reaz Islam, who ran Citigroup Inc. hedge funds that lost most of their value in 2008, has &#8220;no regrets&#8221; about his performance and said &#8220;ambulance-chasing&#8221; lawyers are behind claims that he and the bank misled clients. Investors in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27916,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27914\/revisions\/27916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}